Democratic White House hopefuls are deploying surrogates across the early primary states and beyond as they try to make up for their limited time on the trail. Candidates have deployed their spouses, their children and...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has returned to Iowa for another campaign swing with less than two weeks before the Feb. 3 caucuses. But he and his advisers know President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial 1,000...

DAVENPORT, Iowa - Leaders in Davenport, Iowa, are condemning a snow display depicting a figure gunning down a snowman wearing a Bernie Sanders shirt and another adorned with a Democratic Party hat. Davenport Mayor Mike...

A high school science teacher in Davenport has been accused of secretly recording nude videos of two females who'd stayed at his Bettendorf home. Clinton Van Fossen is charged with five misdemeanor counts of invasion...

Authorities say a collision between a semitrailer and a car left two people dead in Sioux City. The crash occurred around 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Police say the northbound semi collided with the eastbound car at an intersection....

With voting to begin in just two weeks, the sprint to the Iowa caucuses is unmistakably complicated by the beginning of President Donald Trump's historic impeachment trial in the Senate. The proceedings will prevent...

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are proving to be two of the most durable candidates in the Democratic presidential primary. Both men are in their 70s and have outlasted younger rivals who were expected to have strong...

The Democratic Party's leading presidential hopefuls are splitting their time between the critical early-voting states South Carolina and Iowa at events celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. South Carolina's...

The New York Times has endorsed not one but two candidates for the Democratic nomination for president, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar from the party's moderate wing and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren from its...

Bernie Sanders says that outside political groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums backing candidates for public office should be abolished -  including those supporting his own bid for the White House. But the...

Bernie Sanders made a comparison Sunday between the challenges women face in politics today and his running for president at the age of 78 as the Democratic presidential candidate continues to face questions over his...

Bernie Sanders is seeking out first-time Iowa caucus participants where they live, work and shop. Pete Buttigieg is signaling to them through friends of supporters and closing the deal in big rallies. The strategies...

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says the Oval Office benefits from the perspective of a commander in chief who has served in the military in wartime. During an interview in Iowa Saturday, Buttigieg says...

Joe Biden has called for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign to “disown” what he calls “doctored video” that some Sanders supporters say shows the former vice president endorsing Republican calls to cut Social Security...

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is stepping up his pitch to women in early-voting New Hampshire on the heels of a squabble over sexism in politics with fellow progressive and 2020 rival Elizabeth...

MUSCATINE, Iowa - A 20-year-old Muscatine man has been found guilty of first-degree murder for the 2018 stabbing death of his grandmother on her birthday. The Muscatine Journal reports that the jury on Friday found Darian...

The Senate impeachment trial schedule means this may well be the last full weekend of campaigning in Iowa for some Democratic candidates. Four senators in the race will serve as jurors in the trial of President Donald...

Officials in Iowa are urging people to use caution and stay indoors as blizzard conditions continued to wreak havoc in northern and central parts of the state on Saturday. The danger on roads was highlighted by a dashcam...

A winter storm that has already caused trouble at airports in Chicago and Kansas City is expected to bring blizzard conditions to the Plains and Midwest on Saturday and could dump up to a foot of snow in parts of the...

Two of the first three states to vote in the Democratic presidential race will use new mobile apps to gather results from thousands of caucus sites. The technology is intended to make counting easier but raises concerns of...

A dispute between Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders has caused days of hand-wringing among activists about how it might change the race. But it seems to have landed with a thud among...

A 37-year-old Muscatine woman has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for wire and mail fraud. Federal prosecutors for Iowa say that Ashley Erin Murphy Schneider was sentenced Thursday in Davenport's federal...

More than 100 piglets died when a semi-trailer carrying about 1,700 of the animals overturned on a freeway just north of Des Moines. Tom Colvin, chief executive officer of the Animal Rescue League of Iowa, says about 100...

A winter storm dropping several inches of snow and sleet and also bringing in high winds lead to cancellations of classes, activities and services across Iowa on Friday. About half of flights from the Des Moines...

VERNAL, Utah - Utah authorities say a sex offender recently released from an Iowa prison has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman on a Greyhound bus. KUTV reported Thursday that the man was arrested in...

WATERLOO, Iowa - Organizers of an emergency warming shelter in Waterloo say they will have to close because the space doesn't meet fire code regulations. The Waterloo Warming Center opened Jan. 6 at Jubilee United...

EAGLE GROVE, Iowa - A northern Iowa community will hold a special election to fill a City Council seat after the man who was elected to the position refused to serve. The Fort Dodge Messenger reports the Eagle Grove City...

Authorities say a plane has slid off the taxiway at Kansas City International Airport due to icy conditions as a sprawling winter storm hits large sections of the Midwest and beyond. The weather has closed schools,...

Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is dismissing as moot a U.S. Government Accountability Office report that found President Donald Trump’s administration violated federal law by withholding aid to Ukraine last year. In a call...

Forecasters posted a blizzard warning for parts of the Upper Midwest as a winter storm began to gather steam. Blowing and drifting snow and whiteout conditions were expected to move in overnight Friday in the Dakotas,...

A Webster City doctor has been sentenced to two months in prison for making false statements in Medicare claims. Federal prosecutors say 76-year-old Joseph Latella also agreed Thursday to pay more than $316,000 in...

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are learning the hard way that, in a presidential primary, only one candidate comes out on top. The two have spent the past year championing many of the same, sweeping progressive ideas...

Authorities in Iowa had to round up more than 1,700 piglets after a semi-trailer overturned on a freeway just north of Des Moines. The crash happened Thursday afternoon when the truck and trailer overturned on an ramp to...

DES MOINES, Iowa - The chief administrative officer of the Iowa National Guard says he expects more than 2,000 guard members to be deployed over the next year. That would be the largest number since 2011. The Des Moines...

Iowa Republican legislative leaders have introduced a resolution that would declare there is no right to an abortion under the Iowa Constitution. The proposed constitutional amendment introduced Thursday is a response to a...

An  inmate who fled a Waterloo residential reentry center as he neared the end of his prison time was sentenced Thursday in Cedar Rapids to six more months in prison. Franklin Foster had pleaded guilty in October to...

Iowa inmate Gentric Hicks has spent 43 years in prison for a murder that his laywers say his deceased half-brother actually committed. Now 73, Hicks is seeking DNA testing on a hunting cap the killer left at the scene of...

Authorities released the names Thursday of two people found fatally shot and two wounded in Des Moines. Police responded Wednesday to the shooting at a home in the Merle Hay neighborhood and discovered two bodies. A third...

Authorities say people were evacuated from a a downtown Des Moines building Thursday morning because of a fire. The blaze was reported around 7:30 a.m. on the third floor of the Capital Square building, which counts The...

IOWA CITY, Iowa - A man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman he met at an Iowa City bar. Johnson County District Court records say 35-year-old Andrew Wilson pleaded guilty Friday to kidnapping, sexual abuse...

A man charged with animal neglect after a rescue group removed nearly 200 cats from his central Iowa property is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 20. Polk County court records say 66-year-old Dennis Carlson entered a written...

For the first time, the Iowa Democratic Party will report three sets of results from its presidential caucuses. And there is no guarantee that all three will show the same winner. Each set of results represents a different...

New rules in this year's Iowa caucuses could give presidential candidates an unprecedented opportunity to spin the results. In previous years, the Iowa Democratic Party reported just one number: the number of state...

Lingering criticism over Pete Buttigieg’s demotion of a popular black police chief when Buttigieg was mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has raised questions about whether the presidential candidate can attract the support of...

Elizabeth Warren accused Bernie Sanders of calling her a liar before a national television audience during a tense, post-debate exchange where she refused to shake his outstretched hand. That's according to audio...

Police say a shooting in a Des Moines neighborhood has left two people dead and two injured. Des Moines police responded just before 4 p.m. Wednesday to a reported shooting at a home in the Merle Hay neighborhood and found...

After watching for more than a decade as a once busy Veterans Affairs campus deteriorated into a sprawling ghost town, leaders of a small Iowa city announced plans to take control of the property and likely demolish most...

Authorities have identified a Sioux City brother and sister killed in a northwestern Iowa crash on an ice-covered rural road as they headed to school. The Plymouth County Sheriff's Office says 18-year-old Ella Holtzen...

Iowa Supreme Court Acting Chief Justice David Wiggins has told lawmakers that the independence of the courts from politics is a strength. Wiggins made the comments Wednesday as he delivered the yearly Condition of the...

Federal prosecutors say attorney Michael Avenatti was arrested for violating conditions of his bail by committing crimes while awaiting trial. Avenatti was arrested late Tuesday at a state bar court hearing in Los Angeles...

CNN and Iowa debate moderator Abby Phillip are drawing fire for an Iowa debate question that appeared to dismiss or ignore a response from Bernie Sanders. Under questioning from Phillip, Sanders denied a story that he had...

A former teacher in northeast Iowa accused of having sex with a student has made a deal with prosecutors. Howard County court records say Tiffany Ranweiler-Oblander filed a written plea of guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor...

OMAHA, Neb. - A federal report says Nebraska suffered more than $3.4 billion in losses from disastrous weather last year while the toll was $1.9 billion in neighboring Iowa. The bomb cyclone in March caused most of the...

Some business and government leaders in the Quad Cities area of eastern Iowa and western Illinois want to form a regional authority that would gain funding and manage big projects. The Quad Cities Regional Metropolitan...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A northeast Iowa man has been sent to federal prison for receiving child pornography. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that Derek Clemens, of Evansdale, was given nine years and ordered to pay...

A development group that wants to build a $225 million casino and hotel at the Des Moines airport says the project would help pay for a planned new terminal. Highview Development Group presented the plan to the Des Moines...

There was a lot of pre-debate chatter about a coming fight between Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren over Warren's assertion that Sanders told her in 2018 that a woman couldn't be elected president....

The Latest on the January Democratic presidential debate (all times local):

New tension between the Democrats' progressive stars threatens to shake up the party's presidential nomination fight in the final debate before primary voting begins.  Rougher shoving and sharper jabs are expected...

A state panel has agreed to pay more than $400,000 after a judge found a worker at an Iowa care center was the victim of disability discrimination. The State Appeal Board approved paying the court-ordered judgment against...

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa - Allegiant Air has announced it will add three new nonstop flights - to Memphis, Tennessee; Austin, Texas; and Chicago - from the Des Moines International Airport. The Des Moines Register reports the...

The attorneys general of Nevada and 20 other states have reached a $200,000 agreement with PayPal Charitable Giving Fund Inc. to settle complaints over its handling of charitable contributions through the company's...

HARLAN, Iowa - A Kansas man has asked an Iowa judge to let him engage in a sword fight with his ex-wife and her attorney so that he can “rend their souls” from their bodies. David Ostrom, of Paola, Kansas, said in a Jan. 3...

Iowa Gov Kim Reynolds is asking lawmakers to consider increasing the state sales tax by 1 cent to fund increased spending on water quality, the environment and mental health care programs. To offset the tax increase...

VALLEY, Neb. - The National Weather Service is scheduling meetings to share information about the potential for river flooding this winter and spring in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. The two areas were socked with...